Interesting & fun to read, Stephen. Your mother is amazing.
Doug
On 22-May-06, at 11:34 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Over the past several months I have been using my blog mostly as a
> quiet
> incubator space for a series called "Tenderly" where the work is to
> 'translate' or 'improv' off Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons", the
> Green
> Integer edition, which now looks like an over-squeezed, worn out
> sponge.
>
> On occasion I also write about reading Stein, Alan Halsey and Jacque
> Roubaud
> to my 90-year old mother poet manque, who offers her own
> interpretations and
> improvisations on the works that I read her, or 'creative writing'
> exercises
> I make up in response to the texts. She does "Cities" in the most
> recent one
> in response to Roubaud's "Streets of Paris." (As I previously
> suggested the
> Roubaud Selected with the Waldrop family translations forthcoming in
> July
> from Dalkey Archive ought to be a big hit - the advance galleys from
> the
> publisher are certainly so with me).
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>
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